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Joe Burridge's Top Book Recommendations

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It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence.

Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .

The second volume of Sir Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old,...
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Alison Moyet.@PhilipPullman Hardcore fan-woman here. Am hitting The Book Of Dust part two #thesecretcommonwealth like it was Christmas. ‘His Dark Materials’ starting soon on the BBC is making me wish away days. I love your work. Seriously. (Source)

Joe BurridgeFinished "The Secret Commonwealth" by @PhilipPullman over the weekend. What a book! I'm so in love with that universe and the His Dark Materials TV series is an amazing visual representation of the novels. It's a great time to be a fan. (Source)

Sophie RoellThere’s some discussion in our family about whether The Secret Commonwealth is as good as the previous ones. Philip Pullman is a born storyteller and he can make almost any scene interesting (Source)

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